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Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed
former Section 2-10, Volunteer Fire Companies previously included
in this chapter.
The Township recognizes the Stillwater Emergency
Rescue Squad as a voluntary organization and instrumentality for the
purpose of providing first aid and ambulance services to residents
of the Township.
During any emergency involving hazardous conditions,
when no member of the Township Police Department is present, members
of the Stillwater Emergency Rescue Squad may, in the performance of
their duties and as necessary for the protection of life, prohibit
persons, vehicles or other objects from approaching the scene of the
emergency and may remove or cause to be removed from the scene any
persons, vehicles or objects which may impede or interfere with the
operations of the Squad.
It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere
with, attempt to interfere with or to obstruct or restrict the mobility
of any Stillwater Emergency Rescue Squad vehicle or any member of
said Squad performing a volunteer duty.
Any person willfully failing or refusing to comply with any lawful order or direction of a member of the Stillwater Emergency Rescue Squad or who obstructs or interferes with said Squad or members thereof in the performance of their volunteer duties or who damages or defaces or attempts to injure any member of said volunteer Emergency Rescue Squad shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalties provided in Chapter 1, Article III, of the Code of the Township of Stillwater.
